You are in Project tiger area and the big cat does not disappoint you. Three times in Nagarhole and twice in Bandipur during September the tryst of the visitors with tiger was memorable. It has been a hide and seek on the river front in Nagarhole while it was a clear sight both times for Bandipur for long periods. The leopard was a bit more shy as we saw him only rarely in Nagarhole this month and on way to our resort in Bandipur in all its glory on the 23rd. The riverine cruise is so alluring in Kabini with the huge tuskers emerging from among the bamboo clumps helping themselves with mouthfuls of green fodder. The gaurs with healthy shining coats, the lumbering sloth bears and the wild dogs keep you busy with your cameras. The birdlife is spectacular with the nesting Cormorants, the Malabar Pied Hornbills, the Crested Serpent Eagles, the White breasted Kingfishers, the Grey Herons, the Black Ibis, the Brahminy kites, the large flocks of Rose ringed Parakeets keeping you glued to your binoculars.

In Cicada Bandipur large herds of Chitals and Elephants keep calling on in our carefully preserved forest retreat with its waterhole and saltlicks. You observe them in the moonlight or watch intently from your cottage the Striped Mother Mongoose with her young ones in the early morning sun darting in and out of the bushes standing up on their hind legs for a view alround. In the forests you come across large herds of Gaurs and Elephants with big tuskers stealing the show. Presence of numerous smaller herbivores like Sambars, Chitals, Wild boar and packs of omnipresent Wild Dogs call out for happy hunting with your Cameras. The avian fauna characterized by the call of the Peacocks, the Swifts, the Robins and Wagtails, the Serpent Eagles and Brahminy Kites, the Spotted Doves and the Parakeets, the White Breasted Kingfishers and the Night Jars make a panorama of colours.